On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 9:11 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:39, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 12:55 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:42, Aurélio Diniz wrote: > > > > I'm sorry if this question have been posted already: > > > > - I thought that when i install mdk.rpm files it automatically puts > > > > an entry on the k-menu? Or am i wrong? (yes, i know that we can use > > > > menudrake to do the trick..) > > > > > > > > Cumprimentos, > > > > > > > > Filipe - Portugal > > > > > > In many instances, the writer of the program or the "packager" rather > > > forgets this step - but it really isn't all that hard to create menu > > > entries... > > > > Talking of which, how do you get at icons that are with the program > > rather than on the kde list? Netscape 7, for instance > > > > Anne > > 99.9% of icons that come with "bundled" or compiled applications have > icons already made - and even though YOU can't find them, they live on > the HD the program's been installed on. As your "for instance" of > Netscape 7. > > Netscape 7 prefers to live in /usr/local/netscape - which is where the > libs, bins and other bits'n'bobs reside along with it - INCLUDING the > icons - just a matter of pointing your self to /usr/local/netscape/icons > - where you will find the "default" icons for Netscape. > > Other icons will live in /usr/local/icons, /usr/local/share/icons, > /usr/local/pixmaps, /usr/local/share/pixmaps, /usr/share/pixmaps, > /usr/share/icons - and so on and so forth...just a matter of where > you're looking - but they ARE there.
So if I locate the desired icon, I can copy it to one of these locations and it will appear in the listed available icons in menudrake? I'll try that. Anne
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